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Racing Formula Twenty Three
Cosmos
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.4 inch
$7,048
Los Jardines Del Prado
Cosmos
Painting - 140 x 200 x 3.5 cm Painting - 55.1 x 78.7 x 1.4 inch
$13,528
Who Are These Angels CXLI
Naoko Paluszak
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1.5 inch
$1,250
Rooted Like Trees - Marks And Pools
Melissa McGill
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$2,040
Autumn Leaves - Perspectives
Melissa McGill
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$1,550
Walk With Nature No 1 - Perspectives
Melissa McGill
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$1,200
Turn Away - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,395
There Is A Wilderness - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,400
Solitary Sea Bird - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 66 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 26 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,480
Being Myself - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 66 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 26 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,570
That Wild Country - Wild
Melissa McGill
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$2,040
I Need The Sunshine - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,420
My Imagination - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$2,040
Who Hears Music - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 45.7 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 18 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$960
Wildness - Wild Series
Melissa McGill
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$2,020
Cherish Your Solitude - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$2,040
Fall In Love - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$2,040
I Want To Be Alone - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$2,040
À la Kermesse (1)
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,046
August Watercolor painting Summer flowers
Irina Pronina
Painting - 56 x 38 x 0.1 cm Painting - 22 x 15 x 0 inch
$568
Happy skull (a tribute to Basquiat)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$101
The dancing man (a tribute to Basquiat)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$101
Voll aufgeregt - Tout excité
Hans Mendler
Painting - 110 x 110 x 4.5 cm Painting - 43.3 x 43.3 x 1.8 inch
$3,410
The warrior (a tribute to Basquiat)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$101
Shield Maiden, II
Héléna Palazzi
Photography - 89 x 71 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35 x 28 x 0 inch
$1,023
Shield Maiden, III
Héléna Palazzi
Photography - 89 x 71 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35 x 28 x 0 inch
$1,023
Le printemps de mes amours
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$1,762
While waiting call for dinner
Dasha Pogodina
Painting - 94 x 94 x 2 cm Painting - 37 x 37 x 0.8 inch
$1,250
Soulmates
Marie Julou (Tina McCallan)
Painting - 50 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,125
Time for change (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 50 x 150 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 x 0.6 inch
$773 $657
Artemisia
Marie Julou (Tina McCallan)
Painting - 60.5 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.8 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,137
Paysage abstrait II
Weiquan Liu
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,364 $1,228
Paysage abstrait I
Weiquan Liu
Painting - 60 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,364 $1,228
Stained Glass (Vitrail)
Bruno Cantais
Painting - 46 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$222
Couleur Majorelle III
Agnès Tiollier
Fine Art Drawings - 69 x 49 x 0.15 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.2 x 19.3 x 0.1 inch
$1,023
Colored artworks
The work of color is central in any artistic work. It is even one of the first tools of the artist. It is difficult to imagine a work that would exist without the working of color - even if it is the absence of color that the artist chooses to present.
Through the ages and artistic movements, the use and meaning attributed to color evolves, but the essence of color remains the same. Every artist must master the properties of color in order to control his composition. In the restoration of paintings, color even becomes a science, because it is necessary to know the different molecules to find the colors and mixtures originally used by the artist.
In the history of art, the importance of color fluctuates according to periods and geographical areas. During the Italian Renaissance, for example, there was a debate (called Paragone) between the authority of color versus drawing: according to the schools, it is the color, and not the line, that creates the emotion and visual power of a work of art. The colors thus take on an immense importance, and assume certain meanings: white symbolizes purity for example, and blue (systematically used to clothe the Virgin Mary) is associated with divinity. These symbols are not thought of randomly: the purple for example, is used since the Byzantine era to signify the highest rank of royalty. Unlike ochre, the purple pigment came from a specific shell, and was extremely difficult - and therefore rare, and expensive - to obtain.
More generally, colors can be divided into three categories: warm, cool, and neutral. As their name implies, these classes of colors give off an atmosphere that the painter can use to influence the emotion of his work. Baroque art, for example, manipulates the contrasts between warm and cold colors to capture the power of bodies. The play of light is exalted by the effects of color. For a long time, the traditional Western school of painting required painters to reproduce the colors of the environment around them. It was the Impressionists, in the 19th century, who explored other ways of seeing - and therefore of transcribing on canvas - their chromatic environment. By avoiding complex mixtures and painting spontaneously, in the open air, the Impressionists reinvented the use of color to reproduce reality.
It was not until abstract and subjective painting that art devoted itself to color as a subject. Mark Rothko, precursor of the Colorfield Painting movement and of abstract expressionism, sees in his paintings a living organism whose color is human and whose format is transcendent. Piet Mondrian, on the other hand, sought in his paintings to approach the very essence of nature through the purity of primary colors, to achieve abstraction. The founder of the Russian avant-garde movement of Suprematism, Kasimir Malevich, will disturb the senses of everyone with his work "White square on white background", in which the color is painted only for itself. Contemporary art, photography, collage, or pop art also use in their respective ways the resources of color, exploring indefinitely all its pluralities. As Picasso said, "When I have no blue, I use red."
Artsper writes art in color: discover below a great selection of works that honor color and its properties. What better way to brighten up an interior?